Former AWG Employee Pleads Guilty to Fraud

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A former employee of Associated Wholesale Grocers has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in connection with a scheme to create and submit false invoices that embezzled more than $100,000 since 2004.

SN STAFF | Sep 13, 2011

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A former employee of Associated Wholesale Grocers has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in connection with a scheme to create and submit false invoices that embezzled more than $100,000 since 2004.

Mary Ellen Schorgl, who was AWG’s property and lease administration manager from 2003 to 2011, faces up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine, according to U.S. Di